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"Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL)"
IL stands for Israel?
Maastricht is very far from Holland. Telling someone from Maastricht they are from Holland is about as good an idea as telling a Scotsman he's from England.
Yeah, the PVV supported government actually relied upon a tiny Christian fundamentalist party a couple of times. In return for that they gave up plans to scratch the ban on blasphemy that the PVV supposedly wanted. They are a rightwing party at the core. The rest is just populism, which takes a different form here than in the US.
I think it is largely because Zionism still has huge amounts of money to throw around at everyone who's willing to support it and Israel.
"Love the title of his new book: “Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me”"
Tell me about it. It's like "Adolf Hitler: My role in his downfall"
The PVV is pro-gay rights only in as far as the Israeli government is: it is great for pretending to be liberal, but if you really have to take a stand, then forget it if it's too much trouble. The PVV is pro-gay rights and pro-gender equality on paper only and only because it makes Muslims look bad in comparison.
They're not that different. The Danes and Wilders's PVV have figured out a bit earlier that there's no profit in hating Jews anymore and that hating Muslims is all the rage, but the rest of them, including the French Front National, are following in their footsteps.
As for the Dutch putting the PVV in power: the PVV supported a rightwing minority government of Christian Democrats and the market-fundamentalist VVD until last month, which had a very slight majority even with PVV support, but collapsed the minute Wilders withdrew that support. Wilders sold out on all his supposed 'left wing' election promises, but then decided he couldn't live with the EU norm of a deficit of no more than 3%, even though he was demanding that everyone else stick to it less than a year earlier. Wilders may not have lost support among voters yet, but the 'respectable' right has had its fill of trying to please him.
I'd like to point out here that Holland is not a country, anymore than England is.
Also that bullies always kick the ones who are down and brownnose the ones who are above them. So do extreme rightists. Jews have long ago ceased to be easy prey.
"Israel must confront the acute dangers of delegitimization as it did armies and bombers in the past."
By extreme military overkill that is. Prepare to be bombed to smithereens, mondoweiss.
Link is funked up. You can see the petition here: link to ijsn.net
but then if you click their 'Read more' link that one is funked up too...
Democratic you say? Are you sure?
She lied about certain things connected to why she had to leave Somalia. This was at a time when the Netherlands was deporting refugees who had even the slightest inconsistency in the story of why they became refugees, wildly cheered by Ms Hirsi Ali's political allies. She left for the US shortly after that.
Last thing we heard from her was when she asked our national Islamophobic troll Geert Wilders to tone it down. Looks like she's toning it up again...
It's all part of the whole freakshow that is intended to put pressure on Iran and on the rest of the world to treat Iran as if it is doing something that is somehow 'wrong'. It's one giant expanding bubble of nothing and it's straining. Personally I am pretty convinced by now there will never be a US attack and certainly no Israeli attack. They still might stumble into the abyss though.
Could everyone please stop calling him Bibi? It makes me throw up in my mouth. He's not a care bear.
They're already starting to retaliate. A Dutch newspaper reported today that Iranian newspapers say Iran is ready to stop oil exports to the European Union countries by next week (link to trouw.nl
in order to pre-empt the EU oil boycott. The EU decided to start the boycott in July to leave the countries that import the most Iranian oil, Spain, Italy, Greece, time to find alternatives. If Iran goes through with this it could plunge Greece into total chaos...
If BHL is involved this is just another attempt to institutionalize the status quo. This guy is claiming to be some kind of humanitarian but he is actually one hundred percent tribal. Noboday needs this kind of initiative which does nothing more than 'keep them talking' while the Israelis are doing their best to make any talk superfluous.
So now it's 'sabotage' when Israel does it? You know what they would call it if this was an Israeli or US base, right?
I had no idea MoA was back again, thanks for pointing that out. I must have deleted the bookmark after I was convinced it would not return. I still miss billmon...
If the Torygraph says it, there must be some very unhappy conservatives in Britian right now.
I made it pretty clear what I was talking about: 1) The Netherlands, 2) My parents' generation.
That's what the Catholics tried here (Netherlands) to get a majority. I was raised Catholic myself and my parent's generation got a visit from the priest after they had just been married, asking them to hurry up and have kids already. They didn't count on those kids turning away from Catholicism in such large numbers that they are now a tinier minority than ever before.
Just when I stopped believing in capitalism, it works...
It's mostly because the extremist PVV led by Geert Wilders is extremely pro-Israeli. And that in itself has little to do with Israel itself but is tied closely to their Muslim-hating. Muslims like Palestine? Then we'll like Israel.
Holland is not a country...
But it was perfectly clear that the Netherlands would vote no. Zionists are in government here.
It's the ideal ally for the military-industrial complex: it comes with its own set of enemies.
Indeed.
And Israel is holding thousands of Palestinians as hostages.
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Not only that, they were instrumental in blocking a united European position on it.
Meanwhile in the Netherlands we have the most pro-Israeli government in our history (a history of extremely pro-Israeli governments), with a Jewish foreign minister married to an Israeli woman. But he is a moderate compared to the zionist fanatics in Geert Wilders' PVV. The PVV election program mentioned Israel more than the Netherlands itself...
Sloppy? I am sure he knows exactly who runs the West Bank, his son is one of the people running it...
Are you serious? There is no doubt the Iranian regime has killed a lot of dissidents. The Iranian regime still isn't worse than most Gulf countries and certainly still a lot better than Saudi Arabia, but there is no need to glorify it.
But this story that Obama is trying to sell us here (and he seems to be selling it personally), the way it is told, is a lie. There is no clear tie between this amateurish scheme and the Iranian regime.
Here's an op-ed from German public broadcasting that is not swallowing it either: link to dw-world.de
Who is America's biggest enemy?
Saudi Arabia. And the sooner the US public realizes that it's supposed best buddy in the Middle East is actually responsible for most Sunni fundamentalism/terrorism in the Middle East and beyond, the better.
Israel is a pretty close second.
Israel and Saudi Arabia are NOT your friends.
This means that Iran is not your enemy either.
Palestinian Gandhi is probably in an Israeli jail as we speak.
So attacking the Israeli army is 'crossing a red line', but attacking Palestinian civilians is perfectly fine?
The Arab League has offered to replace the aid: link to haaretz.com
And the Arabic for Palestine (and Palestinians) is Filistin. Filistini is Palestinian. It's pretty obvious if you think about it.
Wow, that whole 'there was no mention of Palestine before the Romans renamed Judea' routine is such a standard that I've always believed it. It did seem odd that the Romans named it after a people that had not been heard of for centuries, so this makes a lot more sense.
I can't believe the PA thinks Tony Blair ever had any credibility to lose. He lost any credibility he may have once had when he was Bush's lapdog during the run up to the Iraq invasion.
Which in itself is pretty telling about the power of AIPAC...
"You cannot rewind history."
Haha, that is funny coming from a zionist. You whole political philosophy is based on rewinding history.
I think Turkey is jumping with both feet into the huge power vacuum in the Middle East. All these years no country has ever openly questioned the legality of the Gaza Blockade. Not even the Syrians or the Saudis. And here's Turkey filling the void. The US is clearly not leading anybody anywhere and the EU is as divided as ever. Turkey is the first to let Israel know that its bullying days are over. Egypt is getting more assertive too. There was also a report today that Egypt is trying to convince members of the non-aligned countries to vote in favour of a Palestinian state within the 1967 boundaries. Erdogan is clearly thinking of some kind of cooperation with Egypt. In both countries supporting the Palestinians and standing up to Israel is a very popular/populist stance. Israel is feeling the pain of the US decline earlier than anyone else.
Ok, now the Turkish government says Turkey will ask the International Court of Justice for a verdict on the Gaza Blockade. I am kinda surprised that nobody did that before. Why didn't the Palestinians think of this or what stopped them?
It's funny that this UN report gives Israel almost everything it wants and does more damage to Israeli-Turkish ties than a more critical report could have done.
Wow, I am completely blown away by the enormity of the lie. Not a shred of it is true, yet it comes out with so much conviction.
I was wondering why it looked so familiar, I read this article a year ago when it appeared.
No, actually this one is the only one that is a real border and was the border between the mandate territory of Palestine (administered by the British) and the mandate territory of Lebanon/Syria (administered by the French).
As for Hezbollah being 'sworn to Israel's destruction', so? Are we supposed to be all: 'ok, that totally disqualifies them'? I don't give a crap about Israel surviving as a state. And anyway, how many Israeli political parties are 'sworn to Palestine's destruction'? I think a couple of them are in government right now.
And why is it that when Jewish settlers start throwing stones the Israelis always do manage not to kill any of them?
Yeah, they DID march on the border. They did breach a fence near the ceasefire line in the occupied Golan Heights (reported as 'the Syrian-Israeli border' by most Western newspapers, even though not a single country in the world recognizes it as an international border).
Well, I sent my letter to the Greek embassy. Didn't help though, still feel powerless...
Netanyahoo has bought up Greece's foreign policy. That should give Greek demonstrators some new ammunition...
Armed struggle sure got the Israelis a lot though.
Good doggie!
"Apartheid (my personal translation of “Hafrada”)"
Apartheid is Dutch/Afrikaans) for 'separateness', so will do nicely as translation of separation.